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Voting on the Community Wishlist 2016

by Johan Jonsson

Hi everyone, Last year, the Community Tech team did a survey for a community wishlist to decide what we should be working on throughout the year. Since it's useful to have a list of tasks from the Wikimedia communities, it's also been used by other developers, been the focus of Wikimedia hackathons and so on. You can see what's been happening to the wishes if you look at the status column here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results We're now in the voting phase. It would be much appreciated if you could take the time to spread the news about this in your community ? post on the Village Pumps and other relevant community pages, but also other channels where Wikimedians might see this. Regional mailing lists, Facebook groups, IRC channels and so on. You and your communities can vote here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey (We will be using a CentralNotice banner too, but it's very helpful if people post in the communities where they're active if they think this is worth spreading the word about ? people pay more attention that way.) Voting will close on December 12. //Johan Jonsson --

7?years, 6?months

Fwd: December 2016 CREDIT Showcase in a week

by Adam Baso

Cross post in case you don't follow wikitech-l. See you soon! -Adam ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:33 PM Subject: December 2016 CREDIT Showcase in a week To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello all - The next CREDIT showcase is a week from today - Wednesday, 7-December-2016 at 1900 UTC (1100 San Francisco). https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase If you have a demo, please add it here: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT Last month there were demos on offline, IFTTT, and File properties search & new WDQS visualizations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmfqtP3pr2Y&t=47 We welcome demos from Wikimedia community members and staff alike - from polished features to something you just got working last night. Hope to see you soon! If you would like to invite anyone to CREDIT, feel free to use this template. *Hi <FNAME>* *I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a monthly demo series that we’re running to showcase open source tech projects from Wikimedia’s Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery, Infrastructure and Technology teams. * *CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. The next CREDIT will be held on December 7th at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 19:00 UTC. * *There’s more info on MediaWiki < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase >, and on Etherpad < https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT >, which is where we take notes and ask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode chatroom #wikimedia-office (web-based access here < https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23wikimedia-office >). Links to video will become available at these locations shortly before the event.* *Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks. Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folks working across the open source tech community: language detection, numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of other things.* *If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks, and I hope to see you at CREDIT.* *-YOURNAME*

7?years, 6?months

Tech News (2016, week 48)

by Johan Jonsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/48 >. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next >. More information on how to contribute is available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute >. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ????????????????????????????? *Other languages:* ??????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/ar > ? ?e?tina < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/cs > ? Deutsch < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/de > ? Ελληνικ? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/el > ? *English* ? espanol < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/es > ? ????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/fa > ? suomi < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/fi > ? francais < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/fr > ? ????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/he > ? italiano < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/it > ? 韓國語 < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/ko > ? norsk bokmal < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/nb > ? ?????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/ne > ? polski < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/pl > ? portugues do Brasil < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/pt-br > ? русский < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/ru > ? svenska < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/sv > ? укра?нська < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/uk > ? Ti?ng Vi?t < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/vi > ? 中文 < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/48/zh > Latest *tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News >* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/48 > are available. *Changes this week* - When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:HTTP_cookie >. This means their browser < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Web_browser > will be blocked even if they change their IP address < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IP_address >. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [1] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5233 > - When you use Content Translation < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation > to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [2] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139332 > - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.4 > of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap >). - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [3] < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets#Options >[4] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T33150 > *Meetings* - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 November at 19:00 (UTC) < http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&d… >. See how to join < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings >. *Future changes* - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Tool Labs < https://tools.wmflabs.org/ > could get two new policies. One would be to be able to adopt tools without an active developer < https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Abandoned_tool_policy >. The other would be a right to fork < https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Right_to_fork_policy >. There is a request for comment on Meta < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Abandoned_Labs_tools > . *Tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News > prepared by Tech News writers < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers > and posted by bot < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d… > ? Contribute < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute > ? Translate < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/48 > ? Get help < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech > ? Give feedback < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News > ? Subscribe or unsubscribe < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass… >.* //Johan Jonsson

7?years, 6?months

Hovercards update

by Chris Koerner

Note: I intended to send this to this mailing list last week. Apologies for the delay and duplication. Hello, Hovercards, currently a beta feature, is nearing release. [0] We'd like to encourage communities to adopt Hovercards as a default option for logged-out readers. [1] Hovercards provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. The Reading web team recently completed a series of A/B tests to gather information on how Hovercards are used. * April 2015 - Catalan and Greek A/B test results [2] * Summer/Fall 2016 Hungarian, Italian, and Russian Wikipedia A/B test results [3] * 2016 Reading team UX research [4] As you can see the results of the tests were generally positive. A few key highlights: * During the Catalan and Greek A/B test, 79% of respondents either Agreed or Strongly Agreed that Hovercards were easy to use, 76% of respondents either Agreed or Strongly Agreed that Hovercards were useful for their needs. * Users are viewing approximately 0.99 hovercards per session, and interacting with approximately 31% more pages each session. [5] * The disable rate was very low: the rate of clicking the settings cog for Hovercards was 0.02% for Hungarian, 0.034% for Italian, and 0.016% for Russian Wikipedia. The rates for disabling the feature were even lower. * In our qualitative tests, 13 out of 15 questionnaire participants reported positive experiences with Hovercards. == Rollout plan == The next step for Hovercards is to develop a plan for rolling the feature out to all projects. We have created a draft proposal for which projects to discuss Hovercards with and approximate timeline for deployments. [6] The Reading Web team will be reaching out to the communities in the order listed above to discuss how to implement the feature. We want to enable the feature by default for logged-out users and we will respect the current beta feature preferences for logged-in users. Questions and feedback welcome at Beta Features/Hovercards. [7] Thank you for your time. [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards [1] Logged-out users would see Hovercards by default on wikis that opt-in. Logged-out users may turn Hovercards off via the cog-icon displayed at the bottom of each Hovercard. Logged-in users see Hovercards if they have enabled the feature. New accounts created after the launch of Hovercards would have it on by default (mimicking the default for logged-out users) with the option to disable in Special:Preferences. [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards/GreekCatalanTest [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards/2016_A/B_Tests [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Design_Research/Reading_T… [5] With page interactions defined as the sum of average hovercards viewed per session and average pages viewed per session [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards#Rollout_Plan [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Beta_Features/Hovercards Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

7?years, 6?months

Tech News (2016, week 47)

by Johan Jonsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/47 >. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next >. More information on how to contribute is available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute >. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. (In case anyone is wondering about the recent attacks and two-factor authentication being made available: The newsletter was already in translation by then. It'll be included next week.) ????????????????????????????? *Other languages:* ??????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/ar > ? ?e?tina < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/cs > ? Deutsch < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/de > ? Ελληνικ? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/el > ? *English* ? espanol < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/es > ? suomi < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/fi > ? francais < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/fr > ? ????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/he > ? hrvatski < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/hr > ? italiano < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/it > ? 韓國語 < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/ko > ? norsk bokmal < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/nb > ? polski < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/pl > ? русский < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/ru > ? svenska < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/sv > ? укра?нська < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/uk > ? 中文 < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/47/zh > Latest *tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News >* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/47 > are available. *Recent changes* - Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Multi-factor_authentication >. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences >. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [1] < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Two-factor_authentication > - You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [2] < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#File_properties_search > - The latest Collaboration team products newsletter < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collaboration/Newsletter/Issues/2016/11 > has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has. *Problems* - A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Multi-factor_authentication >. [3] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-November/087008.html > *Changes this week* - There is no new MediaWiki version this week. - RevisionSlider < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:RevisionSlider > will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [4] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148646 >[5] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149995 >[6] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150573 > *Meetings* - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 November at 19:00 (UTC) < http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&d… >. See how to join < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings >. *Future changes* - It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [7] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2016-November/00… > - Hovercards < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Beta_Features/Hovercards > will leave the beta stage < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Software_release_life_cycle#Beta >. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Team > team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:_Beta_Features/Hovercards > . [8] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-November/087041.html > *Tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News > prepared by Tech News writers < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers > and posted by bot < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d… > ? Contribute < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute > ? Translate < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/47 > ? Get help < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech > ? Give feedback < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News > ? Subscribe or unsubscribe < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass… >.* //Johan Jonsson

7?years, 6?months

Your help needed: Community Wishlist Survey 2016

by Johan Jonsson

Hi everyone, Last year, the Community Tech team did a survey for a community wishlist to decide what we shoudl be working on throughout the year. Since it's useful to have a list of tasks from the Wikimedia communities, it's also been used by other developers, been the focus of Wikimedia hackathons and so on. In short, I think it matters. Now we're doing the process again. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey If you'd feel like spreading this in your communities, it would be much appreciated. *) This is when you can suggest things. This phase will last from 7 November to 20 November. *) Editors who are not comfortable writing in English can write proposals in their language. *) Voting will take place 28 November to 12 December. Thanks, //Johan Jonsson --

7?years, 7?months

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Wikitech-ambassadors Digest, Vol 61, Issue 7

by Ray Gold

Thought you. Like to know. We open the news and some one has deleted the news. Ray gold Sent from my iPad > On Nov 14, 2016, at 2:21 PM, wikitech-ambassadors-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > > Send Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list submissions to > wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wikitech-ambassadors-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikitech-ambassadors-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikitech-ambassadors digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: [discovery] Request for testing / early adoption of new > cross-wiki search results (Trey Jones) > 2. Tech News (2016, week 46) (Johan Jonsson) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:03:07 -0500 > From: Trey Jones <tjones(a)wikimedia.org> > To: A public mailing list about Wikimedia Search and Discovery > projects <discovery(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects > <wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [discovery] Request for testing / > early adoption of new cross-wiki search results > Message-ID: > <CAHf72DvBV=32wY7ggXuqUqgV6PoEgCwZVWxg3mumm0+VXhT9qw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Huji, thanks for the reminder about RTL wikis, which is always welcome. > > To expand on Deb's answer, searchers are randomly chosen to see new results > in our A/B tests, so you can't volunteer yourself as a user. Unlike a beta > feature, where motivated and knowledgeable users opt in, the random tests > give us a better idea of how average users will react to the proposed > changes. > > Deb (& Jan), have we looked at how the current design will work on RTL > wikis? (With Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew being the three biggest by volume, > according to a glance at the dashboards.) Some designs, like the result > list on the side, may need extra design work to be made RTL-friendly. > > ?Trey > > Trey Jones > Software Engineer, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Deborah Tankersley < > dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Thanks, Huji, to answer your question - this will be a short series of >> tests on Wikipedia that will display additional relevant search results >> across wikis in the same language to a selected number of users that fall >> into our bucketing schema. Not everyone will see the new results every time >> if they land on a search results listing page. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Deb >> >> >> -- >> deb tankersley >> Product Manager, Discovery >> irc: debt >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Huji Lee <huji.huji(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I think it would be best if we test it in at least one RTL wiki. I will >>> mention this in the VP of Persian Wikipedia (FA WP). >>> >>> If it is meant to only be shown for select users and has no impact for >>> others, I am wiling to volunteer myself as a tester. >>> >>> Huji >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Deborah Tankersley < >>> dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> The Discovery Search team is looking for a few language specific >>>> Wikipedia sites that would be interested in helping with A/B testing for >>>> cross-wiki search results. These tests would evaluate if adding search >>>> results across wiki projects in the same language would be useful, >>>> relevant, and are of interest to users. >>>> >>>> We've written up the details >>>> < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements > [1], >>>> came up with a multitude of designs >>>> < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design > >>>> [2], and had many conversations on both talk pages and with our own >>>> internal Design team. We have also outlined the initial tests >>>> < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing > [3] >>>> that we'd like to run. >>>> >>>> These planned A/B tests would run for about a week and would only be >>>> shown to a small subsection of users that visit the Wikipedia(s) that the >>>> tests are running on. The analyzed results of these tests will be posted on >>>> wiki so that everyone can see how they did in terms of usage and adoption >>>> of the test group. >>>> >>>> We would like to know if there are any particular Wikipedias that would >>>> want to help us test these new search results across projects in their >>>> language. Interested community members might want to post something to >>>> their project's Village Pump to build consensus. Wikipedias that are >>>> related culturally or linguistically would also be of interest. >>>> >>>> Please post on our testing talk page >>>> < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/T… > >>>> [4] if there are any questions, concerns, or volunteers! >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> >>>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements >>>> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_ >>>> Improvements/Design >>>> [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_ >>>> Improvements/Testing >>>> [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Re >>>> sult_Improvements/Testing >>>> >>>> -- >>>> deb tankersley >>>> Product Manager, Discovery >>>> irc: debt >>>> Wikimedia Foundation >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list >>>> Wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list >>> Wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discovery mailing list >> discovery(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >> >> >

7?years, 7?months

Request for testing / early adoption of new cross-wiki search results

by Deborah Tankersley

Hello, The Discovery Search team is looking for a few language specific Wikipedia sites that would be interested in helping with A/B testing for cross-wiki search results. These tests would evaluate if adding search results across wiki projects in the same language would be useful, relevant, and are of interest to users. We've written up the details < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements > [1], came up with a multitude of designs < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design > [2], and had many conversations on both talk pages and with our own internal Design team. We have also outlined the initial tests < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing > [3] that we'd like to run. These planned A/B tests would run for about a week and would only be shown to a small subsection of users that visit the Wikipedia(s) that the tests are running on. The analyzed results of these tests will be posted on wiki so that everyone can see how they did in terms of usage and adoption of the test group. We would like to know if there are any particular Wikipedias that would want to help us test these new search results across projects in their language. Interested community members might want to post something to their project's Village Pump to build consensus. Wikipedias that are related culturally or linguistically would also be of interest. Please post on our testing talk page < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/T… > [4] if there are any questions, concerns, or volunteers! Thanks! [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testing [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/T… -- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery irc: debt Wikimedia Foundation

7?years, 7?months

Tech News (2016, week 46)

by Johan Jonsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/46 >. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next >. More information on how to contribute is available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute >. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. (In case anyone is wondering about the recent attacks and two-factor authentication being made available: The newsletter was already in translation by then. It'll be included next week.) ????????????????????????????? *Other languages:* ??????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/46/ar > ? ?e?tina < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/46/cs > ? Deutsch < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/46/de > ? Ελληνικ? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/46/el > ? *English* ? espanol < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/46/es > ? suomi < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/46/fi > ? francais < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/46/fr > ? ????? < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/46/he > ? italiano < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/46/it > ? 韓國語 < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/46/ko > ? polski < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/46/pl > ? русский < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/46/ru > ? svenska < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/46/sv > ? укра?нська < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/46/uk > ? Ti?ng Vi?t < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/46/vi > ? 中文 < https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/46/zh > Latest *tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News >* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/46 > are available. *Recent changes* - When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [1] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99299 > *Changes this week* - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.3 > of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap >). - In Special:Preferences < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences > you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Fallback_languages >. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [2] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39314 > *Meetings* - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 November at 19:00 (UTC) < http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&d… >. See how to join < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings >. *Future changes* - Magic links < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_links > might not work in the future. [3] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2016-November/00… > *Tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News > prepared by Tech News writers < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers > and posted by bot < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d… > ? Contribute < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute > ? Translate < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/46 > ? Get help < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech > ? Give feedback < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News > ? Subscribe or unsubscribe < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass… >.* //Johan Jonsson

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Deprecation of magic links

by Legoktm

Hi all, With this weeks deployment of MediaWiki to Wikimedia sites, you'll notice that magic links[1] now add tracking categories to identify their usage. As discussed in an RfC, magic links have some problems[2], and we would like to phase them out with interwiki links and templates instead. Things like VisualEditor will still specially handle ISBN/RFC/PMID, but generate the wikitext link format. I would like to recruit the help of bot authors and operators in updating their wikis to not use magic links. Is there anyone in your community who would be interested? [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_links [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Future_of_magic_links#P… Thanks, -- Kunal / Legoktm

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